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The Border Reader
Edited by
Gilberto Rosas;
Gilberto Rosas
Gilberto Rosas is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latina/o Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of
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Duke University Press
Copyright:
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-2719-5
Publication date:
2023
Book Chapter
Necro-Subjection: On Borders, Asylum, and Making Dead to Let Live
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Published:September 2023
Gilberto Rosas draws on the experiences of those who lack the privilege of citizenship in this anti-immigrant age, as they make themselves dead in order to live and rely on experts in asylum and related immigration proceedings to cast their homelands as hopeless, full of despair, and dominated by monstrous and imminently racialized and gendered oppression and violence.
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